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George Grossmith

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in Islington, London, The United Kingdom

December 09, 1847

died

March 01, 1912

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male

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Humor

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George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines. Grossmith is best remembered for two aspects of his career. First, he created a series of nine memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance (1880) and Ko-Ko in The Mikado (1885–87). Second, he wrote, in collaboration with his brother Weedon, the 1892 comic novel Diary of a Nobody.

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	The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith 3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 3,318 ratings — published 1892 — 96 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Society Clown (1888) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Make You Laugh: The Diary of a Nobody & Three Men in a Boat by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Jerome K. Jerome 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Classic English Authors by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Classic Humor Books by Various, Mark Twain, George Grossmith 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	25 of the Funniest Stories You Will Ever Read by Greatest Hits Series, Mark Twain, P.G. Wodehouse 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It's the diary that makes the man.”
― George Grossmith

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